An advertisement in a Windows update? Not really. – Clubic

After imposing
users of Windows 7 and Windows 8 invasive window to false airs Malware , after pushing Windows 10 as a recommended update, here advertising in Internet Explorer

on this subject:

According to media including BetaNews or Infoworld, on some machines, the act of opening a new tab in Internet Explorer has the effect of displaying a blue banner stating “ Microsoft recommends upgrading to Windows 10 .”

According to them, this phenomenon is observed since the KB3139929 patch, a cumulative update for the browser of ‘editor. Problem: what is presented as a security patch also contains an element (the KB3146449) entitled “ updated capabilities of Internet Explorer 11 to update Windows 8.1 and Windows 7 ”

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When visiting the page for this update, we learn that “ adds functionality to Internet Explorer 11 on some computers that allows users to learn about Windows 10 or start an upgrade to Windows 10. . “

However, and as pointed newscatter, this message appears for the month of August, since the user IE11 visit msn.com. For our part, we have actually observed the phenomenon, by simply visiting the Microsoft website, whether on a machine update or another not having the latest patches.

Microsoft is
insisting encourage its users to upgrade to Windows 10. this time, the publisher is not to blame. Tuesday’s updates are for nothing in the message observed

as a reminder, you can eliminate window which we spoke at the start of the news by installing GWX Control Panel utility.

Edited on 03/11/2016 at 10:11